Barnabas Crosby is a Brooklyn-based educator, visual storyteller, and native of Cleveland. In 2010, he founded Whiskey Boys Entertainment, a storytelling vehicle dedicated to sharing stories of Everyday Black Living through black-and-white stills and moving pictures. Trained as a playwright and dramaturg, he leverages education, art, and media to help young people craft their individual and cultural narratives.
Barnabas Crosby is a Brooklyn-based educator, visual storyteller, and native of Cleveland. Trained as a playwright and dramaturg, he leverages education, art, and media to aid young people crafting their individual and cultural narratives using photography and creative writing.
In 2021, Barnabas was named the Photo Urbanism Fellow at Design Trust for Public Space, showcasing his work "
Holding Court," at the Times Square Nasdaq Building and the Central Brooklyn Public Library branch. In 2023, he curated the youth-led photography exhibition "A New Place Like Home" at the Museum of the City of New York and later installed a series of images at Lehman College School of Education, documenting the journey of prospective teacher candidates. His work has been featured in Fortune, International Business Magazine, and CAMOC: Museums of Cities Review. Barnabas continues to teach photography at Harlem School of the Arts and serves as a professor in childhood special education at Kingsborough Community College.
Barnabas returned to the Photo Urbanism program as a Teaching Fellow in 2026 to lead a cohort of young photographers through a guided paid fellowship, examining photography as a tool for personal research and urban storytelling. Learn more.